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58 Cards in this Set

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Traveled to China and returned with stories of his adventures

Marco Polo

Successfully completed a trading expedition on an all water route to India

Vasco da Gama

Began nivational school

Prince Henry

First sailor to round the southern tip of Africa

Bartholomeu Dias

His ship first sailer round the world

Magellan

Conquered Aztec Indians

Cortez

Discovered Pacific Ocean for Spain

Balboa

Searched for fountain of youth

Ponce de Leon

Explored the southwest US

Coronado

Conquered incas Indians

Pizarro

Discovered Mississippi River

De Soto

Sailed to newfoundland and Virginia for England

Hudson

Claimed rich land for Netherlands

Cartier

Founded Quebec.. Father of new France

Champlain

Catholic priest explored upper Mississippi

Marquette

Thought Mississippi might turn west and be passageway to china

Joliet

Sailed the length of the Mississippi to Gulf of Mexico

La salle

Which countries??

Spain, France, England, and Netherlands

Spanish came to?

California

French came to?

Quebec

English came to?

Jamestown

Dutch came to?

Netherlands

Founded Georgia to give debtors a new life

James Oglethorpe

Began settlement at Hartford, Connecticut fo4 religious freedom

Thomas Hooker

First planted tobacco in Jamestown

John Rolfe

Established Maryland for persecuted catholics

Lord Baltimore

People who settled in new Jersey and Delaware

Quakers

Began Rhode island colony which allowed freedom of religion

Roger Williams

Toleration Act

Religious freedom

3 regions?

New England, middle colonies, Southern colonies

Parliament had right to tax

Declaratory Act

Tax on important papers

Stamp Act

Forbade settling in Ohio Valley

Proclamation 1763

Curtailed trade with west indies

Sugar and Molasses Act

Ended self government in Boston

Intolerable acts

Tax on glass, paper, paint, and tea

Townshend acts

Allows Americans to house and feed British troops

Quartering act

Surrendered at Saratoga

General Burgoyne

Surrendered at Yorktown

Cornwallis

Give me liberty or give me death

Patrick Henry

Secretary of state

Jefferson

Secretary of treasury

Hamilton

Secretary of war

Henry Knox

Attorney General

Edmund Randolph

Explorers who opened trail in Oregon

Lewis and Clark

Repealed the Missouri Compromise

Kansas Nebraska Act

Prohibited slavery north of the Ohio River

Northwest Ordinance

Admitted California as a free state

Compromise of 1850

Law prohibiting slavery north of 36 degree 30'

Missouri compromise

Called slavery a crime

William Lloyd Garrison

Led slave rebellion in Virginia

Nat Turner

Was a freed slave

Sojourner Truth

Published a newspaper

Frederick Douglas

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

President of confederacy

Jefferson Davis

Man who agreed 4 Americans to settle in Texas

Moses Austin

Dictator of MX . Alarmed at rate if Americans in TX

Santa Ana

Gadsden purchase bought land in

Mexico